Refrigerator



(No Model.)

O. M. WHITMAN.

RBFRIGBRATOR.

No. 337,909. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENTv OFFICE.

ORRIN MILO VHITMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,909, dated March16, 1886.

Application filed October 19, 1885. Serial No. 180,271. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORRIN MILO WHITMAN, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare the same tobe described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a front elevation, Fig. 2 atransverse and median section, Fig. 3 a horizontal section, and Fig. 4an end elevation, of a refrigerator containing my invention,the natureof which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 5 is anend view of one of the butter-rkin-holding chambers as open, the chamberrepresented in Fig. 2 being shown as closed.

In the said drawings,A denotes the case of the refrigerator, it havingin its upper part a chamber, B, for holding ice. This chamber extendsfrom one to the other end of the case, and is provided at one of suchends with an opening, a, and a door, b, thereto, (see Fig. 4,) suchopening being for the admission of ice into the chamber. Immediately1below the said ice chamber or receptacle there is a series of separatechambers, O, each of which has in its front an opening, c, provided witha door, D, that is pivoted so as to be capable of being turned upward toclose the opening, or downward into an inclined position, so as touncover the opening. From this door two racks, d, project into thechamber of such door, such racks being for a bar, e, laid in them. Onthis bar and against the door is a butter-firkin, E, or other vessel forholding the material or liquid, whether it be butter, milk, or othermatter or matters, to be kept cool.

Through the bottom of each chamber C there is an opening, f, providedwith a Valve or door, g, that is hinged to such bottom, and there isalso in the top of the chamber another opening, h, providedwitha door,The space k directly over such opening h freely communicates with theupper part ofthe icereceptacle. The door ,hinged at its rear, has anarm, k, projecting from it and connected to one of the racks by a cordor wire, Z, such rack being also connected with the lower door, g, by acord or wire, m, which may be either elastic or inelastic, lengthwise ofit.

When the door D of the chamberis closed, both of the doors or valvesgand i will be open, as represented in Fig. 2, and cool air fromtheicereceptacle will flow freely through the chamber C; but when thedoor D is open and inclined, as shown in Fig. 5, both of the doors orvalves g and fi will -be in position to close their openings, so as toprevent cool air from escaping from the case through the chamber O ofsuch door D.

In rear of the ice-receptacle is a passage, n, for the air to pass fromthe spaceo over the said receptacle into the chamber or space 1) belowthe several chambers O, such space p being for holding matters to bekept cool. In the front 0f the case is a doorway, q, opening into thechamber or space p, such doorway being provided with a door or doors,lr, for closing it.

When either door D is opened into an inclined position, the iirkin, tub,or vessel resting against it will be tipped into a like position, so asto enable its cover t0 be removed, and the contents to be exposed andaccess thereto to be had. Should the vessel be a jug holding a liquid,the door,with suchjug resting on it, may be turned into an inclinedposition for the liquid to escape from it into a pan or receptacle. Fromthe above it Will be seen that to obtain any part of the contents ofthejug or firkin there will be no necessity of removing such jug orfirkingfrom the chamber or its door.

A refrigerator thus made is highly useful Afor keeping butter, cream, ormilk in a cool state. The racks projecting from each door D enable theirbar to be adjusted in them as the length of the tlrkin or vesselsupported on it may require in order to bring the top or cover of thesaid lirkiu or vessel to its proper altitude relatively to the top ofthe door.

I do not claim a counter provided with a series of bins adapted to :titin recesses in such j counter and provided with trunnions to entercurved grooves, all as shown in the United States Patent No. 222,816.Nor do I claim a kitchen-cabinet provided with such bins, as representedin the United States Patent No. 209,936. Nor do I claim a refrigeratorprovided with drawers, each of whose fronts is hinged or applied so asto be capable of being turned from a vertical down into a horizontalposition, as shown in the United States Patent Nor do I claim arefrigerator constructed as representedin the United States Patent No.265,202, in which the door is .pivoted so as to swing horizontally, buthas projecting from it no devices for supporting a irkin or vessel, soas to swing outwardly with the door.

l. claimv1. The refrigerator constructed substantially asdescribed-viz., with the ice-receptacle B in its upper portion, thechamber p in its lower part, oneior more intermediate chambers, C, adoorway to each of such chambers, and a door, D,thereto, pivoted so asto be capable of being turned outwardly and downwardly, as set forth,racks or devices in such door for sustaining a bar for supporting a rkinor other vessel,openings in the'top and bottom of the chamber C, and toeach of such openings avalve so connected with the door that on suchdoor being opened and turned l outwardly and downwardly into an inclinedposition both of such openings 4should be closed, but be open when thedoor is closed, all as set forth.

2. The combination, with a refrigerator having to each of itscooling-chambers a door to open outwardly andV downward as explained, ofthe racks projecting inwardly from such door and serving to support abar for sustaining a rkin or vessel arranged with such door, asspecified.

3. A refrigerator having one or more cooling-chambers and to each adoorpivoted to open downward into an inclined position and provided with adevice or means for supporting a firkin or'other vessel to enable it tobe moved by such door from its position within the1 chamber down into aninclined position, all being substantially and for the purpose as setforth.

ORRIN MILO WHITMAN.

